BUSINESS BUILDER: ENIOLA PETERS IS BUILDING BETTER CAREERS AND EMPOWERING PEOPLE

A CV can tell you where someone went to school. It can tell you where they have worked and what qualifications they have earned. But it cannot always tell you what they are capable of doing.

For Eniola Peters, that gap between qualifications and opportunity has become more than a career interest. It has become the focus of a business she has spent years building.

Peters is the founder of MEG Consults, a Human Resources and career development company based in Abuja. With more than 13 years of experience in career development and HR, she has built her work around a simple but important question: how do we help people become ready for opportunities while helping organisations find and develop the right people?

It is a question that sits at the heart of Nigeria’s employment conversation.

Every year, thousands of young people enter the labour market with degrees and qualifications, yet many struggle to translate what they have learned into opportunities. At the same time, organisations continue to search for people with the right skills, attitude and experience.

Peters has spent years working in that space between the two.

MEG Consults began as a career development and HR consulting company, helping individuals with practical aspects of career preparation, including CVs, LinkedIn profiles, cover letters and interview coaching. The company also developed employability programmes aimed at helping unemployed people become more prepared for work.

But the business has grown beyond helping someone prepare a CV.

Today, MEG Consults provides HR consulting, recruitment and talent management, training and development, research and development, workforce support and corporate event management. Its work spans both sides of the employment equation — helping organisations with their people while helping individuals become more prepared to succeed.

That evolution says something about Peters’ understanding of the problem.

Getting someone a job is important. But what happens after the job?

Can they communicate effectively? Can they work with a team? Can they manage their responsibilities? Can they grow into leadership? Can the organisation itself create an environment where people can perform and develop?

These questions have shaped much of Peters’ work.

In 2023, MEG Consults organised an employability workshop in Abuja for young people, focusing on practical areas such as identifying personal strengths, writing effective CVs and cover letters, preparing for interviews and developing interpersonal skills. The programme also used practical exercises and real-life scenarios to help participants apply what they were learning.

For Peters, skills development is not simply about telling young people to become employable. It is about giving them the tools and opportunities to actually become so.

That belief has also taken her work beyond traditional career consulting.

Through the Ready Set Work Initiative, Peters has worked on youth skills development, including a 2024 vocational skills programme that trained 100 young people in areas such as photography and photo editing, soap and shea butter making, graphics design and email marketing, and pastry making.

She has also turned her experience into resources that can reach people beyond a training room.

In 2023, she published Ready! Set!! Work!!!: A Guide to Preparing for the Workplace, a book designed to help young people prepare for both their careers and personal lives.

And her work has increasingly included another group whose career journeys she is passionate about: women.

Peters is the founder of the Women in Career Advancement Network, WICAN, a platform focused on helping women navigate and advance in their careers and businesses. Her work in this area has also led to The Career Smart Woman, a book built around practical strategies for navigating workplace challenges, building confidence and taking greater ownership of one’s career.

What is interesting about all of these efforts is that they are connected.

MEG Consults helps organisations and individuals.

Her employability work helps young people develop practical skills.

WICAN creates a community around women’s career and business growth.

Her books turn years of experience into knowledge that others can access.

Different projects, but one consistent focus: people.

That may ultimately be the most important thing Peters is building.

Not just an HR firm, but a body of work around how people find opportunities, develop their abilities and grow within the world of work.

And it is a space that matters.

The workplace is changing. Technology is changing the way organisations operate. Employers are looking for new skills. Young people are entering an increasingly competitive labour market. Businesses are also discovering that finding talent is only one part of the challenge; developing and retaining the right people matters just as much.

This makes the work of businesses like MEG Consults increasingly relevant.

Peters’ work goes beyond filling vacancies or improving CVs. It is about helping people understand their value, helping organisations make better decisions about their people, and creating more pathways between talent and opportunity.

That journey has not happened through one programme or one big idea.

It has been built gradually, through consulting, training, employability programmes, women’s career development, writing, mentoring and the everyday work of running a business.

A business builder is someone who sees a problem, understands the people affected by it and keeps building solutions around it.

For Eniola Peters, that problem has always been closely connected to people and opportunity.

And through MEG Consults, she is building a business that sits right in the middle of that conversation.

For August 2026, NG Business Info spotlights Eniola Peters, founder of MEG Consults, as its Business Builder of the Month, recognising the woman building a business around one of the most important assets in any organisation: its people.

BUSINESS BUILDERS is an NG Business Info monthly series celebrating the people building businesses, creating opportunities and shaping Nigeria’s economy.